Midgut microbiota of the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae and interactions with Plasmodium falciparum infection

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Boissière, Anne ^a   Tchioffo, Majoline T ^a,b   Bachar, Dipankar ^c   Abate, Luc ^a   Marie, Alexandra ^a   Nsango, Sandrine E ^a,b,d   Shahbazkia, Hamid R ^c,e   Awono Ambene, Parfait H ^b   Levashina, Elena A ^d   Christen, Richard ^c   Morlais, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a University de Montpellier   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^c Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BREEDING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LARVA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYROSEQUENCING; ANIMAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROBACTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENTEROBACTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84874552495     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002742     Document Type: Article

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